VP of Product
Location: US, CA, San Francisco
Department: Prod
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Executive
Required education: Bachelor's Degree
Industry: Financial Services
Function: Product Management

Company profile:
At iMATCHATIVE, we believe in the power of science and technology to inspire creative solutions and to transform businesses. We apply big data, superior analytics, psychological assessment tools and proprietary algorithms, along with human intellect and professional experience, and a healthy dose of imagination, innovation and integrity, to develop innovative products.We are pleased to introduce altX, our first product, an automated, two sided, online platform that promises investors and hedge funds alike, deeper, more intelligent analytics and searches and a more efficient, less expensive capital allocation process.

Job description:
We are a well-funded financial technology startup, with a unique team and unique skills, based in San Francisco.  We are building a disruptive new investment marketplace, and we need an excellent startup-experienced Vice President of Product Management.  As startup VP of Product, you will own the vision, definition, and delivery of our product platform, in close collaboration with the CEO and CTO.  You will be responsible for building, managing, and championing a team of world-class product leaders.  On any given day you will be ingesting feedback from customers and strategic partners, pitching current/future investors, driving competitive and market analysis, negotiating tactical and strategic feature concepts with internal leaders, mentoring your product team on agile product execution, and defining actual, tactical product requirements when needed.  You will own the product roadmap, with a vision to what we intend to build in the next 3, 6, 9, and 12 months.  You will also know, down to detail level, exactly what we are building in the coming few weeks, and why.  You love product management and you love being agile.  You understand that to succeed, you must ‘fail early and often’, and pivot quickly in response to our successes and failures.  You always think of product in terms of user and business benefit, and constantly challenge everyone else at the company to do the same.   You live and breathe sprints, stories, and radical prioritization.  You fight for and own the correct prioritization of features among a chorus of stakeholders, using a combination of objective data, user needs, market trends, and a deep product intuition.  When presented with a feature concept, you can quickly understand how it will impact the rest of our platform, and communicate this impact to others.   You know how to break large feature efforts into tiny, measurable, deliverables.  Through a combination of vision, product strategy, and tactical execution, you will enable a cross-functional team of PMs, designers, engineers, data experts, and other specialists to collaboratively build a groundbreaking new financial services platform.   WHAT YOU WILL DO:Manage all product initiatives through the entire lifecycle from ideation and inception through development, testing, launch, measurement, and ongoing iterationDrive feature definition with your product team, incorporating feedback and concepts from multiple sources (both internal and external)Collaborate with the CEO, CTO, and exec team to define the product vision that will fulfill user and client needs, staying one step ahead of the marketOwn the agile product backlog, full of well-written, collaboratively-researched user storiesManage an organic, living product roadmap as a complement to the agile backlog, giving the team a vision into where we are headed, and whyWork with a truly diverse team -- our team includes psychologists, data scientists, engineers, financial professionals, and people spanning consumer, enterprise, and Wall Street industriesCommunicate effectively with a distributed workforce across email, text, IM, shared documents, video conferencing, and in personRecruit, manage, and mentor a world-class product team, including product managers and designersServe as product evangelist, involved in marketing and selling our product features and product vision to customers, investors, and partnersProvide inspirational leadership, motivation, and hands-on direction to all product and engineering staffCultivate a collaborative, transparent culture where cross-functional teamwork is the normSet a high bar for product management excellence, enforcing a culture of product development that is agile, user-focused, and based on rapid execution of small, measurable successes

Requirements:
8+ years of experience defining and shipping amazing productsExtensive startup experience, most recently in a senior or executive roleProven experience defining and delivering large, hosted service platformsHands-on experience writing clear, agile, measurable, user-focused requirementsExperience with the challenges of transforming unstructured data into useful, actionable, monetizable dataExperience in finance and, ideally, the hedge fund spaceWorked in, and evangelized for, a truly ‘lean-startup’ environment, with great agile product practicesA deep sense of personal responsibility and accountability, drive, intelligence and passion for product developmentSuccess in promoting a culture of collaboration, accountability, innovation, and entrepreneurship that deliversA thirst for breaking down silos, working in teams, helping others, and being forthrightA track record of building, retaining, and defending the priorities of your product teamA willingness and ability to make very tough decisions on priority, putting user and business needs above all else, and justifying these decisions to the teamWon’t stop until your team finds a solution to a given customer or product problemAlways looking for a better way to do things, and inspiring others to do the sameEqually good at facing ‘inward’ to the team, and ‘outward’ to customers, potential investors, and partnersIdeal qualifications:Experience with transactional systems, marketplaces, and trading exchangesKnowledge of Jira Agile and Atlassian toolsStrong engineering &amp; coding backgroundSome experience with / exposure to risk analysis, behavioral finance, and behavioral psychology 

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